Rick Williams
Houston Astros 1978–1979
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | 36 | 31 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .324 | .290 | .614 | 79.4 | 74.5 | .296 | 1.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 34.7 | 4.67 | 1.529 | 4.41 | 3.26 | 97.7 | 71.4 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 31 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 122 | 44 | 30 | 37 | 6 | 121.3 | 3.26 | 1.253 | 2.74 | 3.52 | 99.6 | 108.2 | 1.9 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-16 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1979-08-12 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1979-05-31 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-08-01 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-09-04 | LAD @ HOU Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-06-23 | SD @ HOU Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979-05-31 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979-06-12 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1979-09-04 | LAD @ HOU Gameday | 5.2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1979-05-12 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.